On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:16:47PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> When one using scp or rsync, the file(s) are on the left side or the >> right side and you want to get the file(s) to the other side. >> >> If I "scp file1 userA@machineX:/tmp" I expect that "file1" will be >> in /tmp on machineX. >> >> If I "scp userC@machineY:/tmp/bozo" I expect that the file will be >> in the current directory on the current machine. >> >> I think I'm explaining something very simple here. >> >> This is the same as an NFS mount; unless the permissions are wrong, >> I should be able to copy either way. > > Correct. If you have shared folders working properly, you should see > whatever you do in that folder in the guest reflected on the host, and > vice versa. > >> Not seeing any output from "lsmod | grep vbox" on my Ubuntu guest OS. > > Then the script didn't do on your system what it is supposed to > do. Again, without seeing the output, that's as much as I can say with > certainty. > > Greg
Now I can't even get to mount at all :-( After I request Device->Insert Guest Additions ISO, it won't automatically mount (of course). so I try manually mounting it: sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/ mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660' So, at least I can use scp to transfer files... Sigh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
